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THE RURAL N E W-Y O R K E R. 
March 21 
CATALOGUES FOR 1903. 
Thos. J. Ward, St. Mary's, Ind.—Price 
list of Fruitland nursery; four pages. 
EvRugrken Nursery Co., Sturgeon Bay, 
Wis.—Price list of evergreens, chiefly the 
hardy kinds. 
David Knight & Son, Sawyer, Mich.— 
Small fruit plants; 22 pages. An up-to-date 
list, written In a careful manner. 
H. H. Aultfathbr, Minerva, O.—Price 
list of berry plants and packages; eight 
pages. A condensed list containing many 
good things. 
W. R. Gray, Oakton, Va.—Catalogue of 
roses and ornamental plants; 18 pages. A 
very fine selection of new and standard 
roses, grown in a congenial climate, is 
offered. 
McAdams Seed Co., Columbus Grove, O. 
-Seeds and plants of special merit; 22 
pages, colored cover. A somewhat restrict¬ 
ed list of excellent varieties, all well de¬ 
scribed. 
C. Betsoher, Canal Dover, O.—Price list 
of Cannas, Gladioli, pseonles, roses and 
other ornamental plants. A large and very 
choice selection of desirable plants. The 
fruit varieties known are listed. 
Geo. H. Whiting, Yankton, S. D.—The 
Yankton Evergreen Nurseries; 24 pages. A 
general descriptive price list of nursery 
products. Especial attention is devoted to 
forest and ornamental trees. 
The Evans Seed Co., West Branch, 
Mich.—Catalogue of northern-grown seeds. 
The offerings are mainly of grains and 
hardy forage plant seeds, though promi¬ 
nence is given to millets, cow peas and Soy 
beans. 
S. M. IsBEEL & Co., Jackson, Mich.—Cata¬ 
logue of seeds for farm and garden; 64 
pages, colored cover. There are some good 
specialties and a long list of reliable stand¬ 
ard varieties, many being “northern 
grown.” 
E. E. Parkhurst & Co., Presque Isle, 
Me.—Catalogue of northern-grown seed po¬ 
tatoes; 16 pages, well illustrated. One can 
scarcely go amiss in this collection of va¬ 
rieties as all are desirable in one or more 
special points. 
J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, N. J.—Cata¬ 
logue of small fruits and hardy orna¬ 
mental plants; 60 pages, colored plate and 
profuse illustrations. A very pleasing and 
extensive collection is offered. There are 
many good novelties. 
CoRDREY Bros., Laurel, Del.— Strawberry 
plant catalogue; 16 irnges. A rather short 
list of standard kinds and in addition some 
promising specialties, such as Climax, 
Cline’s Lirought King and Heflin. All have 
shown unusual promise where originated. 
.7. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn.—Tennes- 
ijce Wholesale Nurseries. Price list of 
peach trees; 16 pages. This little catalogue 
is especially valuable for the excellent de- 
.scriptions of an extensive list of iieach va¬ 
rieties. No better selection is offered any¬ 
where. 
A. M. Nichol. Granville, O.—Price list of 
strawberry plants; eight pages. Several 
excellent new varieties are offered, but 
the specialty is Nichol’s Granville, a large 
brilliantly-colored mid-season variety rec¬ 
ommended for its productiveness and extra 
quality. 
Daniel M. Herr, Lancaster, Pa.—Cata¬ 
logue of Fairview Nurseries, chiefly fruit 
and ornamental trees; 28 pages. Mr. Herr 
has got up a readable and instructive list, 
offering a large selection of varieties, but 
the colored cut of Fay currants would be 
disowned by that reliable sort. 
L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, N. Y.-Strawberry 
and small fruit catalogue; 18 pages; excel¬ 
lent half-tone illustrations. An unusual 
number of varieties is offered. Prominence 
is given the Rough Rider as a shipping 
berry, and much useful information is in- 
coiporated in the descriptive matter. 
B. F Smith, Lawrence, Kan.—Catalogue 
of berry plants. The new Kenoyer black¬ 
berry, supposed to be a cross between 
lOarly Harvest and Kittatinny, is highly 
recommended for its earliness, great pro¬ 
ductiveness and excellent flavor. It is said 
to be very hardy and resistant to drought. 
J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn.— 
Catalogue of choice fruits; 18 pages. Mr. 
Hale starts out with the idea that there is 
little use in getting out a catalogue of fruit 
plants in this boom time for fruit growers, 
as nursery stock sells itself. The offerings 
are all of choicest tested and new varie¬ 
ties. It is thoroughly up to date. 
W. N. St'ARFK, New Carlisle, O.—Cata¬ 
logue of fruit trees, plants and farm seeds; 
40 pages, colored cover and many original 
illustrations. It would be a difficult cus¬ 
tomer who could not be suited in this large 
collection of varieties. About all the old 
and new small fruits are listed. The Hay¬ 
maker purple-cap raspberry, Munger black¬ 
cap and Chautauqua Climbing currant are 
prominent novelties. 
California Rose Co., Los Angeles, Cal. 
—(Jhoice rose plants; 48 pages, flnely illus¬ 
trated. Rose growing in California is a 
rather peculiar business. Some varieties 
reach unheard-of perfection on the Pacific 
coast, and certain eastern favorites fail to 
succeed. There are many beautiful pictures 
and much valuable information. 
WINTER NOTES FROM FLORIDA. 
Owing to the over-abundant rains, it 
would seem that the bulk of the Florida 
strawberry crop will be so late that it will 
be unremunerative. About Jacksonville 
and as far down the State as Lawtey and 
Starke, those noted strawberry localities, 
up to March 1, everything was drowned 
out, so that nothing had oeen done. This 
was an unexpected condition as the Win¬ 
ters here are usually dry. Getting into 
higher ground in the neighborhood of 
Ocala drier conditions prevail and daily 
shipments are well under way. Shippers 
tell us that when the berries sell for less 
than 20 cents per quart they cease to ship. 
Refrigerator boxes, containing 80 quarts are 
used. They are heavy and substantial, 
made of two thicknesses of inch boards 
including top and bottom with building 
paper between, and cost $7.50 each. In 
each box under the cover is a pan to con¬ 
tain the ice. This ice has been found suf¬ 
ficient to take the berries through to New 
York in good condition and in some in¬ 
stances unmelted ice has been found in 
the empties upon their return. 
A shipper informed us that so far his 
shipments have netted him 12^4 cents per 
quart. His variety is the I.iady Thompson, 
a berry of fine quality but not as Arm 
as some others. Judging from the samples 
shown we would say that this shipper liter¬ 
ally packs each berry into the basket and 
rounds them up so full that the retailer 
might safely throw out one-third if soft, 
and shaking them up a little still have a 
salable and fairly full basket of fruit. 
The Smooth Cayenne pineapple has made 
its record as the most desirable variety 
suitable for growing in Flor^a. It fruits 
in 18 months, and if properly cared for. the 
jiinerles will continue in profitable bearing 
eight or 10 years. The absence of spines 
makes it easy to cultivate and to gather 
the fruit. Its large size, beauty of form 
and the certainty of its fruitage combine 
to make it hold its place commercially as 
the leading sort. One grower tells me that 
he realized $2,400 a year from his three 
acres. He uses sulphate of potash as a 
fertilizer applying it tnree times each 
year. He has sold many plants In former 
years, getting in some instances as high as 
$20 per 100, but they have now become 
plentiful and are sold at low rates. The 
jilants are grown under rough inexjienslve 
slatted sheds to prevent sunscald, and 
farther up the State, to guard against pos¬ 
sible frost, the vacant spaces are filled by 
loose slats laid in when necessary. Not¬ 
withstanding the large acreage devoted to 
pines in Florida and the extension of the 
culture confined so largely to this one sort 
we hardly think we shall ever see the 
Smooth Cayenne hawked about the streets 
of New York at a low price. It is cer- 
lainlv a treat and a revelation to eat them 
here'nicked “dead ripe” from the plants. 
J. YATES PEEK. 
after School Hours 
Over 3000 Boys 
in various parts 
of the country are 
making money in 
* 
their spare time ^ 
selling The 
Saturday Evening 
Post. Some make 
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as much as $io.oo 
^ '•ir 
and $15 .oo a ■week. 
Any boy who 
reads this can do J 
the same. A 
I N A DAINTY little booklet, which 
we will send to any boy free, the 
most successful of our boy agents tell 
in their own way just how they have 
made a success of selling 
The Saturday 
Evening Post 
There are many stories of real busi¬ 
ness tact. Pictures of the boys are 
given. Send for this booklet and we 
will forward with it full information 
how you can begin this work. No 
money required to start. We will send 
Ten Copies of the magazine the first 
week free. Write to-day. 
The Curtis Publishing Company 
^84 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Thielmanns—The Seedsmen—carry a full line of 
Garden and Field Seeds. Onion Seed a specialty. 
Write to-day for their Catalogue and Special Prices. 
THE THIELMANN SEED CO., ERIE,PA. 
THOUSAND 
Apple Trees. BistCommtrclalSortt 
- clean, smooth, thrifty; no end to 
roots. Peach, Plum, Pear, Cherry, Quince, 
etc., cheap. Woooview Nurseries, Mt. Hour Springs, Pa. 
^ TREES SUCCEED WHERE 
Ve!^try. OTHERS FAIL 
ir Fruit Book Free. BcbuU of 78 yeare’experience 
STARK BRO*, Louisiana, Mo.; Dansville, N. Y.; EU 
GREAT CROPS OF 
STRAWBERRIES 
AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
The best book on strawberry growing ever 
written. It tells bow to grow the biggest crops of 
big berries ever produced. The book is a treatise 
on Plant Physiology and explains how to make 
plants hear Big Berries and Lots of Them. 
The only thoroughbred scientlflcally grown 
Strawberry Plants to be had for spring planting. 
One of them is worth a dozen common scrub 
plants. They grow BIG RED BERRIES. The 
book is sent free to all readers of The Rural New- 
Yorker. Send your address to 
R. M. KELLOGG, Three Rivers, Nllch. 
Seed 
Potatoes 
^l.eo a barret and up, 
Michigan Northern Grown are always 
the best. 30 best varieties. Blight proof, 
enormous yielders. Highest quality, 
lowest prices. Sold in any quantity, one 
pound to a carload. 100-page Catalogue 
FREE on request. 
Marry N. Hammond Seed Co. Ltd. 
Box ea, BAY CITY, MICH. 
Largest growers in America of Vegetable, 
Field and Flower Seeds. 
Rhubarb Roots 
Linnasus, Victoria and Queen. Send for prices 
stating quantity w’anted. Also Asparagus Koots. 
EUGBNE WILLETT, North CoUins, N.Y. 
Vegetable Plants. 
Large transplanted plants of Cabbage, Tomato, 
Celery. Egg Plant, Pepper and Cauliflower. Write for 
Price List. 
J. H. HUTTON & SON, Conyngham, Pa, 
CRD cm C lot of Horse 
run UAUC UnCAr Uadlsh cuttings and 
Uhubarb Roots. A packet of our Mammoth White 
Turnip Radish, given free with every purchase. 
EDWARD KIGG JK., Seedsman, 
Foot of High Street. Burlington, N. J. 
HORSE RADISH SETStr/.'S.^'C.' 
stock; none better. Henry K. Shaw, Burlington, N.J 
\M^ Ik 1 ^ p Golden Queen, Columbian 
W pAk Iv I tii mJ and Loudon Raspberries. 
Quote prices; say how many. 
Address Box 227, North Collins, N. Y 
ROSES 
Five cents, postpaid. All 
kinds. Carnations, Geraniums, 
Cannas, Dahlias. Strong 
plants. Catalogue free. 
W. R. GRAY, Oakton, Va. 
Climbing Currant 
A NEW NOVELTY. 
Send for Circular. 
E. H. FAY & SON, Portland, N. Y 
SMALL FRUITS. 
Standard and improved varieties of Raspberries, 
Blackberries, Gooseberries, Currants, Grapes, Strawberries, 
eU. JSvsry plwt grown and gunmntoed by ms. 6hii only cleaa, vigoroui, 
woU rootad, freih dug plnnU thnt giro rosult*. Writ* for Into catalog. 
Allen L. Wood, Wholesale Grower, Rochester,N.Y. 
OOM PAUL 
STRAWBERRIES 
sold at the rate of $:120 per 
32 quart crate; $10 was paid for 
one quart Iwx of six berries at 
our field meeting List Free. 
KEVITT’S PLANT FARM, 
Atlienla, N.J. 
Strawberry Culture. 
By M. Cbawfobd. Over 40 years* eitperlence. 
A 60-page Book—not a catalogue. Send 10 cent* 
for a copy, read it, then return it and get yom 
money back if yon want to. 
M. CRAWFORD COMPANY, 
Box 1005. Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 
StrarNberry Plants 
and Seed Potatoes. 
How to Grow Biggest Crops. 
Finest Fruit. 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE FREE. 
Send for it. Bargains in New 
Varieties. 
FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON, 
Leslie, Mich. 
l-k A11 ■ A Large, showy, fine flavored. Arm, pro- 
nd I If? ductlve. Circular free^^ 
Strawberry 
originator. N. UAKTON, 
Mt. Ephraim, N. J. 
Fairfield Strawberry 
than Michel’s Early.50c. per dozen, by mall. Circular 
free. STANTON B. COLE, Bridgeton, N. J.< 
80 VARIETIES 
BEST NEW and 
Standard Stra w’by, 
_ — Ras'byand Blk'by. 
Plants, Vigorous, Heavy Rooted and True to 
Name. Guaranteed to reach you In good oondltlom 
High quality, and low prices. Large catalogue FREE 
A. B. WESTON & Cc “ .. 
; Co., Box G, Brldgmian, Mich.* 
r »e New Auto Strawberry—110 per M. The 
Largest, Most Productive, Marketable Strawberry 
Grown. Fruited three seasons with perfect success. 
Great Money Maker. Plants In quantity. Also aU 
other leading varieties. „ ^ . 
JNO. M. RICKARDS & SON, Camden, DeL 
CLIMAX STHAWBERRY-&',T6 
, unl- 
____ _,,Great¬ 
est producer. For particulars see Rural of June 21, 
or send postal for our new Berry catalogue. Big stock 
Best Berry Plants of all good kinds. Bottom prices. 
SLAYMAKER & SON, Dover, Del. 
B 
KBRY FauiTS.—My 1903 catalogue tells the whole 
story about growing 60 varieties of berry fruits and 
prices. B. F. Smith, Drawer C., Lawrence, Kan. 
DCDDV DI AM TO— Select varieties. None better; 
giinn I I LAn I O none cheaper. D. M. Johnson, 
Seaford, Del., Growers of Trees, Plants, Vines, etc. 
OCAIATHD nilMI AD strawberry Plants, *1.50 
OLHAIUiI UUIlLMr perl.OOO. Donald’s Elmira 
*2.50 per 1.000. Pear Trees at lowest prices. California 
Privet, etc. SAMUEL C. DE COU, Moorestown. N.J. 
Qur Strawberry Plants pay you to plant. They are 
” grown on new land, and the best soil in the 
world. Every plant is sure to grow and produce large 
crops of big berries Our catalogue Is different from 
any other, and do not forget that the new Cardinal 
Rasp^rry Is a winner. Catalogue free. 
P. W. DIXON, Holton, Kan. 
Choice Strawberry Plaats-;:svr„YiaX 
medal at the Pan-Am. Exposition, *1 per 12. I have a 
large quantity of Bnbach, Dewey, Excelsior, Gandy, 
Gibson, Glen Mary. Haverland, Hero. Kansas, Marie, 
Miller, Monitor, Nick Ohmer, Parson’s Beauty, Pal¬ 
mer, Sample, Dunlap, Splendid, Texas, Uncle Jim and 
others, for sale cheap. Send for estimate on varieties 
wanted. Satisfaction guaranteed. Catalogue free. 
WM. S. TODD, Greenwood, Del. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
PINE HILL FRUIT FARM, Center Brook. Conn. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
For Sale at Whole¬ 
sale Prices. o00,000 
Bubach; 600,000 Lady Garrison; 400,000 Parsons’ 
Beauty; Cumberland Raspberry; Kansas Black Cap, 
My plants are fine. D. W. MOSLEY, Dover, Del. 
Cat. Free. 
Strawberry Plants 
by dozen or thousand. Send for price-list. 
WILLIAM PALMER, Grooms, N. Y. 
The President 
The finest new strawberry now on the 
market. Largest size and hriglitest color. 
Send for circular. Price, $10 per hundred, 
$3 per dozen, by mail. 
THOMAS R. HUNT, 
Originator. Lamhertville, N. J. 
THE VERY FINEST 
I!,'.;,. fiuIUUuUEmnli 
in the world are grow-n from plants sent out by 
me—for thirty years a small fruit specialist. 
Beautiful, illustrated catalogue of 50 pages, giv¬ 
ing honest descriptions of varieties—some to be 
had of no one else—fair pi-ices and replete with 
valuable hints on culture, free to everybody. 
J.T. LOVETT, Little Silver, N.J. 
“STRAWBERRY PLANTS THAT GROW” 
The best Standard Varieties and many of the newer sorts at reasonable 
nricea Descriotive Catalogue with Cultural Instructions Free. 
prices. Uescripwe ^ NURSERIES, BRIDGMAN, NIICH. 
I nnn nnh strawberry plants 
I miU.UUlJ (hem. Earlle>t.Harl{,] 
■ ■ w W W ■ w w OB Aroma will prolong the season from B t< 
Wakefield Cabbage and Lettuce Plants rea-^^' “"v t.iTn«. Hare 
Tobacco Dust, etc. Address Originator, 
100 Varieties. If you wish the 
Ijest and earliest, you must plant 
, Mrs. Mark Hanna, Howell and 
__ __ g tne seasoniromo to 6 ■weeks. 200,000 Early Jer^y 
Wakefield Cahhige and lettuce ^ants^^^^^^ 
V^lsTa.^v’a*! 
